Auditory Learning
Background
Auditory Learning is part of Eileen Simpson & Ben White's ongoing project to find and distribute out-of-copyright archvie material. Sourcing vinyl 45 rpm records of chart hits from 1962 - the last year that commercial recordings can be retreived for public use, due to recent copyright revisions - the artists have extracted over 50,000 sounds to produce a 'pubic sonic inventory'.
Within the gallery, modified turntables play a new sound work assembled from the inventory of indidual notes, percussive elements and vocal snippets. The surrounding graphic fragments recall vinyl 7 inch printed paper sleeves.
Auditory Learning will change and develop throughout the exhibition tour. Reassembled as part of a live event during British Art Show in Leeds, in SOuthampton it will form the soundtrack for a new film produced with a group of local teenagers.
All work is copyleft licensed and available to download or cut-on-demand.
Exhibition
Auditory Learning was commissioned for British Art Show 8
Curated by Anna Colin and Lydia Yee
Leeds Art Gallery, Leeds
9 October 2015 – 10 January 2016
Talbot Rice Gallery, Edinburgh
13 February – 8 May 2016
St Georges Building, Norwich University of the Arts, Norwich
24 June - 4 September 2016
Bargate Monument, Southampton
9 October - 15 January 2017
Public Sonic Inventory
Sounds extracted from 1962 chart hit vinyl 45s – the last year that commercial recordings can be retrieved for public use until 2034, due to recent copyright revisions – to produce a public sonic inventory
Images
Film
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Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival @ British Art Show 8
Thursday 26 November
Leeds Art Gallery - Tiled Hall
The Headrow, Leeds
LS1 3AA
8pm
Free event
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This event reanimates both public domain archive material and copyleft recordings generated by the artists and their collaborators. The event brought together for the first live remix of a new work produced the British Art Show 8 alongside the presentation of two recent Open Music Archive projects.
Additional Exhibitions
Auditory Learning was also exhibited as part of:
Eileen Simpson and Ben White: Open Music Archive
Castlefield Gallery, Manchester, UK
14th June 2019 - 18th August 2019
Eileen Simpson and Ben White (Open Music Archive): Once Heard Before
Whitechapel Gallery, London, UK
27th August 2019 – 5th January 2020
Documentary
Short documentary films about Auditory Learning were produced by Hayward Touring: Eileen Simpson and Ben White, Auditory Learning (2015) at BAS8
and Summerhall TV: Ben White : Auditory Learning